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--:-- Ryland Barton: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton.
--:-- Ryland Barton: Congress has passed a bill to reopen the government. The White House says President Trump will sign it. The House of Representatives narrowly passed the package 222 to 209, bringing it one step closer to ending the longest shutdown in U.S. history.
--:-- Ryland Barton: NPR's Sam Greenglass reports.
--:-- Sam Greenglass: After 43 days, the federal government is on track to reopen for the first time since September 30th. The record-long shutdown has resulted in federal employees going without pay, airport delays, and pauses to food assistance.
--:-- Sam Greenglass: The package, passed Monday by the Senate will temporarily fund most of the government through January and some specific agencies through next September. It also includes a provision that would ensure federal employees get back pay and rehire those who were laid off during the shutdown.
--:-- Sam Greenglass: Most House Democrats voted against the measure because it does not extend the expiring health insurance subsidies they have been pushing to preserve.
--:-- Ryland Barton: As part of the shutdown deal Senate Republican leader John Thune says he hold a vote in December to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies.
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--:-- Ryland Barton: Much-loved Italian pasta could vanish from American supermarket shelves in January if the U.S. Commerce Department goes ahead with the decision to slap heavy duties on Italian pasta brands, NPR's Ruth Sherlock reports.
--:-- Ruth Sherlock: The Commerce Department is accusing major Italian pasta producers of anti-dumping practices. That's when a foreign company sells their goods at a cheaper rate than at home.
--:-- Ruth Sherlock: The department threatens to impose duties which, when combined with recent new charges on European Union goods by the Trump administration, would push tariffs on Italian pasta to 107%.
--:-- Ruth Sherlock: Anti-dumping probes are fairly routine, but Italian pasta companies say they have never resulted in such extraordinarily high duties.
--:-- Ruth Sherlock: Italy's influential agribusiness association, Coldiretti, warns this barrier is so high that it would, quote, practically wipe out Italy's pasta exports to the United States.
--:-- Ryland Barton: European countries have raised concerns about America's military buildup in the Caribbean, but Secretary of State Marco Rubio says no one brought it up with him at a G7 meeting in Canada, as NPR Michelle Kellerman reports.
--:-- Michelle Kellerman: Wrapping up his two visit to Canada Secretary Rubio brushed off reports that the UK is withholding certain intelligence from the U because of concerns about deadly strikes on alleged drug boats from Venezuela.
--:-- Michelle Kellerman: We have very strong partnerships with the UK and other countries. Again, nothing has changed or happened that has impeded in any way our ability to do what we're doing, nor are we asking anyone to help us with what we're doing in any realm, and that includes military.
--:-- Michelle Kellerman: Rubio says the U.S. has plenty of military assets in the region that can collect intelligence for what he calls a counter-narcotics campaign, and he says this issue never came up during his meetings with other G7 foreign ministers.
--:-- Ryland Barton: It's NPR. The number of people diagnosed with tuberculosis across the world rose again last year. About 8.3 million people were reported as newly diagnosed with TB in 2024, but the number of deaths caused by TB fell.
--:-- Ryland Barton: The vast majority of TB cases in the U.S. are diagnosed in people born in other countries.
--:-- Ryland Barton: After more than two centuries in existence, it's the end of the penny. The U.S. Mint just announced it has minted the last of the coins in Philadelphia to save money and in recognition of the one-cent coins growing irrelevance.
--:-- Rafael Nam: Producing each penny was costing the U government nearly four cents and ending production would save the U.S. more than $50 million a year.
--:-- Rafael Nam: But the move to face at the penny has been a big pain for many retailers and banks, which are struggling to provide exact change.
--:-- Rafael Nam: After all, pennies remain legal tender, meaning that they can still be used. Chances are, though, many of them will stay where they've probably been for years, in big jars, coffee cans, or somewhere under the cushion of your couch.
--:-- Ryland Barton: An artist is auctioning off his archive for a sculpture at CIA headquarters that's transfixed codebreakers for decades. The 10-foot-tall copper screen called Cryptos was designed to look like a piece of paper coming out of a fax machine. One side features a series of alphabets that are key for decoding the four encrypted messages on the other side.
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